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Closed 21/12/2023

More Smiles 2023!

Organised by Magic for Smiles

Building on the success of 2022, we aim to raise £5000 to deliver at least 10 magic shows and workshops for 500 vulnerable children, mostly refugees and traumatised. We will further return to the Middle East post COVID and expand in the UK.

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Closed 21/12/2023

We use magic as a tool for enhanced wellbeing through psychosocial support amongst vulnerable and often traumatised children, mostly but not only refugees. To this end, we provide magic shows and tuition, especially in Jordan and Turkey. Magic restores the joy that has been robbed by war.

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While we continued during the pandemic online in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and the UK, we have only had resources to return in 2022 to Turkey. Exciting plans are being finalised for a trip to Jordan next February where we hope to support for example similar Syrian girls to these ones in Zaatari camp in 2019, or to follow up with these absorbed Syrian children from an online show in 2020. We depend on donations starting with this Christmas cheer appeal!

We hope also to return again to Turkey for shows or tuition and Lebanon and (online) to Syria. Lastly - according to available funds, we aim to expand further into the UK refugee and asylum seeker market. There is a hungry catch-up market for the use of wellbeing magic for stress and trauma relief - the emotional, cognitive and social benefits. We will be hugely grateful for any donations from our kind supporters.

In the words of one partner in the UK: "Not only is Jamie a great magician and performer, but he is also a wonderful person with a great energy. He was able to make a connection with the children and made them feel really involved in the show. Everyone, including the adults, had a wonderful time. Thank you, Jamie, it was a pleasure to have you at Refugee Support Group".

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